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Cedrela angustifolia Moc. & Sessé ex DC.

American Cedar

Other names

International recognized trade name (ATIBT) Cedro
Deutsch Tucumán Zedrele
English American Cedar
Français Cédrele
Italiano Tucumán Zedrele
Suomi Tucumán Zedrele
Norsk Tucumán Zedrele
Čeština Tucumán Zedrele
Español Tucumán Zedrele
Svenska Tucumán Zedrele
Polski Tucumán Zedrele
Український Tucumán Zedrele
Român Tucumán Zedrele
Русский Tucumán Zedrele
Български Tucumán Zedrele
EESTI Tucumán Zedrele
日本語 Tucumán Zedrele
Other names cedro de Tucumán, cedro bayo, cedro coya, and cedro del cerro

Further information

COL
Wikipedia
FSC

Origin

Geographic Regions South America
States and Territories Argentina (Misiones, Salta); Paraguay (Canindeyu, Central, Cordillera, Paraguari); Mexico (Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas); Guatemala; Belize; Honduras; El Salvador; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Bahamas; Cayman Isl.; Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Isl. (St. John, Tortola); Antigua; Barbados; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Montserrat; St. Eustatius; Saint Lucia; Trinidad; Curaçao; Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Caldas, Caquetá, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Quindío, Risaralda, San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Santander, Tolima, Valle); Venezuela (Aragua, Barinas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Falcon, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Tachira, Yaracuy, Zulia); Guyana; Surinam; French Guiana; Ecuador; Peru; N-Brazil (Amapa, Pará, Amazonas, Acre); NE-Brazil (Bahia, Ceara); WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goiás, Brasilia Distrito Federal); SE-Brazil (Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo); Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz, Tarija); Taiwan [I]; China [I] (Guangdong [I]); South Africa [I]; Eswatini [Swaziland] [I]; New Caledonia [I]; tropical Africa [I]; Cameroon [I]; Mozambique [I]; São Tomé [I]; Guinea [I]; Fiji [I]; peninsular Malaysia [I]; Java [I]; Philippines [I]; India [I]; Sri Lanka [I]; Bangladesh [I]
[I] = Introduced

Botany

Reich Plantae
Tribe Tracheophyta
Gymnosperm Angiosperm
Class Magnoliopsida
Order Sapindales
Family Meliaceae
Genus Cedrela
Species angustifolia
Author citation Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
Scientific name Cedrela angustifolia Moc. & Sessé ex DC.

Habitus

Wood type Hardwood
Growth habit Baum

Natural durability
(according to EN 350)

Mushrooms field DC 2
Common furniture beetle (Anobium) n/a
Termites M

Impregnability
(according to EN 350)

Impregnability of heartwood 3-4
Impregnability of the sapwood 1-2
Width of the sapwood s

Raw density oven-dried u =12%
(e.g. according to EN 350)

Density, oven dry u =12%, lower limit 450.00 kg/m3
Density, oven dry u =12%, mean value 490.00 kg/m3
Density, oven dry u =12%, upper limit 600.00 kg/m3

Appearances

Wood

American Cedar

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